Table 1. Overview of SOuRCe subscales.
Subscale | Level | # items | Description constructs measured |
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RCR Resources | Institutional | 6 | degree to which respondents perceive the existence of effective educational opportunities about RCR, available policies and professionals to whom concerns can be addressed, and leaders who actively support RCR |
Regulatory Quality | Institutional | 3 | factors such as the degree to which regulatory committees such as the Medical Ethical Testing Committee treat researchers fairly. |
Integrity Norms | Departmental | 4 | degree to which norms about research integrity exist in one’s department. |
Integrity Socialization | Departmental | 4 | degree to which organizational departments engage in activities that effectively socialize junior researchers in research integrity. |
Supervisor/Supervisee Relations | Departmental | 3 | relations between supervisors and their supervisees in terms of fairness, availability and respect |
(Lack of) Integrity inhibitors* | Departmental | 6 | degree to which conditions like lack of adequate resources or suspicion and competition between colleagues produce difficulties for conducting research responsibly. |
Expectations | Departmental | 2 | degree to which the department’s expectations for publishing and obtaining external funding are fair |
Columns stipulate level of measurement, number of items per subscale and a description of the constructs that subscale measures.
*This scale was reversely scored so that all subscales can be interpreted using the same logic (i.e. a higher score means a greater lack of inhibiting factors, which indicates a better research integrity climate).